Multidisciplinary management of eating disorders

This Handbook is an indispensable guide for the multidisciplinary management of eating disorders. It discusses a broad range of issues: managing high-risk patients, the challenges of inserting feeding tubes, addressing nutritional aspects and dealing with additional disorders which might complicate matters, such as diabetes, coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis. It discusses fertility, pregnancy, and eating disorders in children and adolescents, as well as addressing the needs of families. Chapters contain key checklists and flow diagrams. Abundant pictures and conversations, coloured diagrams, charts, maps and boxes, support readers' varying learning styles and assist retention of key points. Vignettes taken from real (but strenuously anonymised) cases appeal to clinicians' preference for case-based learning. The book also functions as a practical manual of 'What to do - and what NOT to do' with practical scenarios. In the acute situation, clinicians will be able to go directly to the relevant chapter to guide the team through the 'when, where, how, why and with whom' of assessing and managing patients with eating disorders. The book is primarily aimed at postgraduate physicians managing patients with Eating disorders on Gastrointestinal, Endocrine or general medical wards, and those who seek to deepen their expertise as they sit higher professional examinations. It is of interest to both medical and psychiatric clinicians, as well as useful to nursing and multidisciplinary staff who want to develop a compassionate understanding of the true pain driving their patients' behaviours.

Includes index.

Intro; Preface; Contents; 1: Understanding Anorexic Behaviour; Understanding Eating Disorders Leads toBetter Management; What Can GoWrong intheManagement of Acute and Severe Cases of Anorexia Nervosa?; How Can WeImprove the Quality of Acute Medical Care forSuch Patients?; How Can WeDiagnose and Understand the So-Called 'Eating Disorders'-What Are the Physical and Psychological Conditions 'Which May Mimic Them'? Are They Diagnoses of Exclusion?; What Are the Causes of Eating Disorders and How Can They BeDistinguished from'Lifestyle Choices' or Wilfulness and Bad Behavior?

How Common Are Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa, and Is There Any Increase inRecent Years?What Is the Prognosis, and What Should BeOur Expectations forPatients with Severe Anorexia Nervosa?; References; 2: Care ontheGeneral Medical Ward; The Medical Management of Inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa; Outpatient or Inpatient? When Should WeConsider Admitting the Patient toaMedical Ward?; How Do WeAssess Physical Risk inaPatient with Severe Malnutrition?; Where Should the Patient BeAdmitted?; Admission toanAcute Medical Unit.

What Are the Key Principles fortheManagement of Anorexic Patients onMedical Wards?Establishing aS…